Show Notes
Peter and Michael discuss "Bullshit Jobs" by anarchist anthropologist David Graeber. The result: two professional podcasters debating which jobs are real and which jobs are fake.
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Sources:
- On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant
- 37%of British workers think their jobs are meaningless
- Average Annual Hours Worked by Persons Engaged for United States
- Thetimes they are not changin’: Days and hours of work in Old and New Worlds, 1870–2000
- AlienationIs Not ‘Bullshit’: An Empirical Critique of Graeber’s Theory of BS Jobs
- Many people feel they work in pointless ‘bullshit’ jobs, research confirms
- TheOverworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
- Study: Leisure Time Declines
- USA Consumption as percent of GDP
- TheSignificance of Task Significance: Job Performance Effects, Relational Mechanisms, and Boundary Conditions
- Tasksignificance and meaningful work: A longitudinal study
- Americans’job satisfaction in 2024
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